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Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USAThis is such a difficult issue ...... because the benefits to these technologies could be great, and they could truly lead to very effective law enforcement, and potentially to a more civilized, less crime-ridden society. But they can also be misused horribly by people...

Tags: Big Brother, Part 1, kind-of

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Woman receives Sprint wireless broadband bill for $14,062.27

Woman receives Sprint wireless broadband bill for $14,062.27Unlimited?This doesn't look like that kind of issue. With speeds of 14K modem I doubt the woman could have done anything to rack up that kind of bill. This looks like billing glitch.I have thr sprint card..Unlimited plan, but is $99.99 a month....

Tags: Sprint Communications, kind-of, Roaming Charges, Sprint Wireless, broadband

Discussion threads 2007-12-31

Web safety pork: House offers $25m to Hollywood-linked group

Web safety pork: House offers $25m to Hollywood-linked groupExcelent political moveThe Industry is using the right stuff when it comes to political moves.what do they need $5million for.. each year?!What on earth do they need $5 million for, every single year? Do people realize how much money that is?Programs like...

Tags: Channel management, industry, Lord, I-Safe, political action, Hollywood-linked group, Web safety, kind-of, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

AT&T's Randall Stephenson: 3G iPhone and saving the world from Net Neutrality

AT&T's Randall Stephenson: 3G iPhone and saving the world from Net NeutralityDon't mess with the business modelI'm trying to understand. Is he telling us that if AT&T couldn't control the Internet and cell phones in the USA, we'd have to make do with the kind of limited network access...

Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Randall Stephenson, Net Neutrality, 3G

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

An anxious wait for EU court ruling on Microsoft

An anxious wait for EU court ruling on MicrosoftThis will be very interesting to watch. Really though, nothing they do willhave much of an effect in and of itself. The biggest thing here is all of the negative publicity that Microsoft has been getting and that has contributed to a...

Tags: Digital music, Vertical industries, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., EU Court, big business, democracy, public relations

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

ZDNet deputy tester (lawyer) reviews Microsoft's LifeCam NX-6000 Webcam

ZDNet deputy tester lawyer reviews Microsoft's LifeCam NX-6000 WebcamHey, what kind of lawyer ........ submits a review without a disclaimer indemnifying all the parties involved? :)Bottom line...It JUST WORKSLike everything else coming out of Redmond these days, this new "web-cam" is the quintessentially "the bomb". We deployed it a...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Notebooks, harware, cam, Bluetooth, Microsoft Corp., kind-of, camera, Webcam

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Anonymity on the net

Anonymity on the netI thought the era of stupidity...where people with disabilities had to endure that kind of schoolyard nonsense was long gone.As for death threats, well that is a matter for the police. Surely this is a textbook case crying out to be put through the judicial system.It's time...

Tags: Call centers, Routers & switches, Network technology, Internet, call-center, kind-of, hacking

Discussion threads 2007-03-27

Google dependency is risky business

Google dependency is risky businessWhy doesn't ZDNet rename itself MicrosoftNet?Maybe it's just because I'm new here, but does it seem to you that all articles about Google or Apple are negative by default, whereas all articles about Microsoft are positive by default?And Microsoft gets free publicity just for promising...

Tags: Google Inc., GOOGLE DEPENDENCY IS RISKY BUSINESS, kind-of

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

SCO revenue, income continue to drop

SCO revenue, income continue to dropSCO Group's revenue dropping? Not surprisedWell, it's been out of the news for a while, but their lawsuits over Linux IP certainly didn't endear them to anyone. They willingly chose to join the gang of companies whose only real revenue-generating product is lawsuits (like...

Tags: Operational accounting, OPEN SOURCE, kind-of, SCO Group Inc., cost-of-living, revenue, income

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

License To Nil

License To NilAnalogousWinning in Las Vegas is based on a random outcome. So past experience supposedlyhas no significance for what happens next.I'll assert that when a new or semi-new issue comes up in law, the winning approach will be the one most analogous to something in law that already...

Tags: Operational accounting, kind-of

Discussion threads 2006-08-28

Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's future

Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft's futurePassport by another name?Ok, why is this good but Passport bad?Anybody interested in what the customer wants?I am increasingly amazed at these 'products' emerging that I have no intention of using nor have an interest in. Do any of these companies care to listen...

Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, kind-of, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Internet, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2006-06-21

Why have a desktop machine anyway?

Why have a desktop machine anyway?Why? Because...* The telephone monopoly does not serve my blue-collar neighbourhood with DSL and the cable monopoly costs too much.* Software servers would not likely serve me with affordable software in my languages to do my kind of work.* The Internet is not safe enough...

Tags: Thin clients, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, thin client technology, desktop machine, desktop, kind-of, Internet, software

Discussion threads 2005-09-21

Qualcomm wins in court, kind of

Qualcomm wins in court, kind ofQualcomm riping fruits of British technology inventions from WWIIAnd here is the example of shameless behavior by one of companies that did not bring much to technology in terms of invention but it protects it was really born by their R&D.Churchill had a cell phone?;)

Tags: Research & Development, Qualcomm Inc., kind-of

Discussion threads 2005-01-18

Report: Big boost for blogs in 2004

Report: Big boost for blogs in 2004Report: Big boost for blogs in 2004One has to wonder if these "Internet veterans" have not heard of Usenet. I find the increasing use of HTML for textual information a sad waste of bandwidth. It adds nothing to information content. Of...

Tags: Blogging, blog, Usenet, kind-of

Discussion threads 2005-01-03

Group wants P2P files to pay

Group wants P2P files to paya tower of babel......won't encourage D/L's or ultimately discourage privacy.Here's Why this will workQUOTE FROM ARTICLE: "This would essentially say, if you have the rights to this piece of content, we don't care what kind of device you're using,"It gives freedom in what you want...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), SECURITY, Viruses and worms, way music, music, kind-of, P2P

Discussion threads 2003-12-10

Linux: A new balance of power

Linux: A new balance of powerM$ is going down!The recent acquiring of Suse by Novell will bring great German technology and know-how to Linux.This will form a blitzkrieg that will knock M$ dead in no time.If Novell took itself downso be it, it would have the there final phase into...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, ROI/TCO, Linux, Novell Inc., kind-of, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-11-05

Additional Resources

Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer

Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer.  From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...

Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...

Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest

Discussion threads 2008-07-24